{"id":1687,"date":"2010-02-03T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2010-05-31T21:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T04:53:50","slug":"bodybuilding-a-ridiculous-sport-or-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/bodybuilding-a-ridiculous-sport-or-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilding: A Ridiculous sport, or a hobby??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodybuilding: A Ridiculous sport, or a hobby??<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Is there a more ridiculous sport than Bodybuilding?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Super Bowl Week in America, and in honor of the grand spectacle, I\u2019m going\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to write a few sports related blog entries.\u00a0 Speaking of \u201cSports,\u201d it made me wonder: Is Bodybuilding actually a sport?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you are a fan of this \u201cSport\u201d and happened to suddenly find your way on this blog, before you start spewing venom and hatred on my Blog, you should first understand the perspective I am coming from.<\/p>\n

Except for a bad three-year stint of being lackadaisical, I\u2019ve been involved in doing sports in one way or another since high school. I\u2019ve been lifting weights for the past ten years or so, and I highly recommend it to everyone, male\/female, younger\/older, whatever.\u00a0 Hence, my issue is not with weight lifting.<\/p>\n

More over, I really don\u2019t care if you lift weights due to vain reasons of wanting to look good in front of a mirror.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done that myself and know plenty of guys in the gym who the same thing.\u00a0 I can respect your right to wanting to sport the best physique possible in front of the mirror.\u00a0 Most guys (and women) who start lifting do initially for aesthetic reasons. Look, everyone wants to look good shirtless (or bottomless) and few actually have the drive to do something about it.\u00a0 No argument there.<\/p>\n

So what are we really talking about there?\u00a0 An official \u201cSport\u201d dedicated to posing on stage against each other while judges decided whose body appeases them more.\u00a0 And believe it or not, in my early 20s, this made sense to me.\u00a0 I even read the magazines, Flex, Musclemag, and other publications back then.\u00a0 Then one day, I woke up and thought, \u201cWhat the f**k kind of a sport is this?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Suddenly, the whole completely ceased to not only make sense, but it seemed rather silly.<\/p>\n

For some reason, it all made sense to me way back when.\u00a0 Then almost overnight, I had a weird realization:\u00a0 What does it say about a sport when the entire basis for competition is a bunch of grown men getting up on stage and engaging in a pose-off? They don\u2019t really compete against each other directly.\u00a0 They are not even competing indirectly in the way gymnasts do.\u00a0 They are simply posing!\u00a0 Grown men posing and flexing their biceps in front of judges and a miniscule audience to decide who has better looking biceps.<\/p>\n

I say grown men because if a bunch of drunken 19-year-old teenagers started engaging in a pose-off, then you\u2019d just dismiss it as, \u201cWell, drunken teens.\u00a0 It\u2019s the way it goes.\u201d\u00a0 But grown men, sober<\/span>, training all year so they can strike a better pose?\u00a0 [All that\u2019s missing is Madonna\u2019s song Vogue on that stage., and sometime that may not even be a joke. ]<\/p>\n

Being a fan of physical fitness, I respect most forms of athletic competition.\u00a0 Even a sport such as Baseball, one that is ridiculed by many of my European friends, is still a sport that is very highly competitive.\u00a0 Trying to swing a bat at a ball traveling at 95 miles per hour, versus the next one that is curving away from you at 75 miles, takes a lot of skill. (As does throwing those pitches.)<\/p>\n

I can highly respect Power lifters and Olympic weight lifters.\u00a0 Squatting a 800, 900, or a 1000 pounds is an incredible athletic feat by a human being.\u00a0 Watching someone clean and jerk enormous amount of weight, like a human crane, is awe-inspiring.\u00a0 But then, what about grown men building low-functional muscles to just show them off? Men who have just pumped up muscles that have very low functionality?<\/p>\n

What does it say for a sport when you hear the following conversations at a competition?<\/p>\n

-Competitor X has enormous deltoid muscles.\u00a0 His posterior and mid delts are looking fine but his anterior delts are a bit smaller in proportion.\u00a0 Over all, good delts.\u00a0 Competitor Y has smaller deltoids but enormous lat muscles.\u00a0 His Biceps aren\u2019t very elongated but they\u2019re more compact as he flexes.<\/em><\/p>\n

-Competitor Z is sporting nice hamstrings, but his quads could use some help in relation to both competitor X and Y.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Can that be considered a sport?\u00a0 Grown ass men posing in G-Strings as to who has the hotter body?<\/p>\n

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Oooh, Look at me! Look at me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What are some Arguments that are supposed to establish bodybuilding as a legitimate sport:<\/p>\n

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  • “These are World Class Athletes”<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contest participants would like to be considered \u201cWorld Class Athletes<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the problem\u2026 It opens the Pandora\u2019s box, and does it ever\u2026.\u00a0 See, when you go that direction, you\u2019re going to open yourself to being compared to NBA Basketball players, NFL Football players, Boxers, Olympic level gymnasts, wrestlers, and Track & field athletes, as well as MMA fighters.<\/p>\n

    Yet, I\u2019d bet you I can find high school level all-state basketball players who\u2019d run circles around these \u201cWorld Class\u201d Bodybuilder athletes, and we are not talking basketball skills.\u00a0 I am simply talking Agility, mobility, and coordination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Many of the above mentioned athletes use resistance training to strengthen muscle, and they do so for function and practicality.\u00a0 The end goal is not posing on stage in a G-string.<\/p>\n

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    • “Lifting heavy weights is an Athletic endeavor.”
      \n<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      And I agree with you, except modern professional Bodybuilders are not that strong when compared to world class level strength athletes.\u00a0 A world class Olympian lifter or powerlifter will squat or press twice what your average puffed up-posing on stage bodybuilder will do.\u00a0 So Mr. Universe is most likely far stronger than you and I,\u00a0 but world class?\u00a0 Forget about it.<\/p>\n

      Certainly, you have to be blessed with the proper genetics to become a bodybuilder, and a supreme athlete who could have otherwise excelled in a legitimate sport<\/em> may opt to become a professional bodybuilder for whatever reason.\u00a0 Yet, it doesn\u2019t change the fact that you have people posing to see who has cuter muscles.<\/p>\n

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      So I ask again, is there a more ridiculous sport than this?\u00a0 And yes, I get that they\u2019re trying to treat the human body as some sort of a sculpture by adding pieces to the muscles to create this perfect physique.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It’s not the endeavor that’s alarming.\u00a0\u00a0It’s that it’s turned into a “Sport.”And yet, it\u2019s still a bunch of grown men who trained for the past 9 months to pose against each other.\u00a0 (Not to mention poor dietary habits, taking insane amounts of roids\/growth hormone\/insulin; and then taking massive prespecritpion grade diuretics days before the event, just to go on stage for an hour and look great in tiny little Speedos. )<\/p>\n

      Before you say I don\u2019t understand what it takes to become a bodybuilder, you should know that I\u2019ve been around competing bodybuilders.\u00a0\u00a0 I am aware that it\u2019s not an easy endeavor.\u00a0 There is a lot of sacrifice.\u00a0 I get that.\u00a0 Going through periods of torturous \u201cCutting down\u201d diets where you eat ungodly amounts of meat while dehydrating yourself to the point of insanity before a contest.<\/p>\n

      It\u2019s just that something seems wrong with a sport where eating an organically grown apple, banana,\u00a0or orange is wrong, but then you are forced to eat enough meat in one day that could feed an entire village in South East Asia for a whole week.\u00a0 All so you can have more puffed out muscle on stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      And yes, I am familiar with the precision of trying to stack various amounts of anabolic steroids.\u00a0 Taking the right amount of D-bol, synthetic testosterone<\/span>, Winstrol<\/span>, and some Deca<\/span> for joints and help in recovery, tapering off of it while adding testosterone boosters to get your body\u2019s production back up to speed, and supplementing with HGH\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 Two weeks before you cycle off, you gotta hit the clomid or (if you can get it, receive HCG injections)\u00a0 to get your normal test production up to speed.\u00a0 (No, I haven\u2019t taken roids or \u201cGear\u201d, but I\u2019ve learned enough about them from reading and being around the gym-rats.)<\/p>\n

      I\u2019ve been around guys who do compete in this endeavor and it\u2019s not easy trying to manage the three variables: 1-the Proper diet, 2-proper training, and 3-the accurate anabolic steroid stack cycling.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n

      Maybe the fact that it seems ridiculous comes from the transformation of the contestants in recent decades.\u00a0 In my early teens, you could look at a bodybuilder as sort of the ultimate manifestation of masculinity and male physique.\u00a0 To male teenagers, there is the appeal of the\u00a0ultimate male representation in such a physique.\u00a0\u00a0 As an example, Here is a picture of Arnold in his prime:<\/p>\n

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      Arnold - Governator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      Somehow we went from the above \u00a0to the grotesque representation of a human body below:<\/p>\n

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      The Blob of Random Muscle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      A giant mound and blobs of muscle (And I’m with you: Who knew an alien could grow out of a human ass??)<\/p>\n

      It’s what Jabba the hut woud look like if it lifted weights:<\/p>\n

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      If only Jabba was motivated...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      It\u2019s sort of what Jabba-the-hut would like if he lifted weights, wouldn’t you\u00a0agree?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In recent decades, bodybuilders starting injecting massive amounts of Human Growth Hormone [HGH] and the growth hormone abuse led to the new look bodybuilder with the protruding stomach.\u00a0 Compare the Arnold slim abs to the one below.\u00a0 This is a roid-gut:<\/p>\n

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      The "Roid Gut"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      The above individual is NOT fat, but rather, abuse of HGH has not only grown his muscles but it also grown his intestines from the inside<\/span>.\u00a0 That’s how you get his protruding stomach look.\u00a0\u00a0 Compare that stomach with the Arnold photo, and you’ll note the\u00a0 HGH difference.\u00a0 (And Arnold did his fair share of steroids.\u00a0 But the Steroid technology has improved drastically since the 1970s.)<\/p>\n

      On top of that, something interesting happened.\u00a0 One day a group of bodybuilding bandits dressed in bandanas and tank tops intercepted trucks full of insulin en route to poor suffering diabetics in a remote village.\u00a0 The professional bodybuilding world changed forever.<\/p>\n

      Apparently injecting Insulin<\/span>, (as well as Anabolic Steroids<\/span> + Human Growth Hormone<\/span>) enables your muscles to even grow bigger than even Arnold imagined.<\/em><\/p>\n

      And that\u2019s how you get the look of Jabba the bodybuilder\u2026<\/p>\n

      Yet, at the end of the day, it all amounts to puffed out grown men, fresh out of the tanning salon, posing on stage.\u00a0 Can that competition be considered an athletic event?\u00a0 Grown ass men posing in tights on stage as to who has a nicer ass!\u00a0 Is this a sport?\u00a0 We don\u2019t call female beauty pageants a sport.\u00a0 This is a male pageant except it\u2019s not so beautiful!<\/p>\n

      I am sure if a competitive bodybuilder were to read this article, he\/she would slightly peeved, but then again, it\u2019s one person\u2019s opinion.\u00a0 Alright, relax.\u00a0 I am not saying we should outlaw these contests, nor am I advocating that we should cut up these puffed out guys, turn them into \u201cSoylent Green\u201d and feed hungry people in Africa.<\/p>\n

      I am just asking a question. Is this really a sport? While I am certain, there are great athletes in professional bodybuilding, does it still count as a sport? If so, is there a more ridiculous sport than this where once again, grown ass men, pose against each other to see who has the nicer lats, pecs, or butt?<\/p>\n

      It’s a great sports weekend coming up.\u00a0 UFC on Saturday night featuring 4 very good matchups, (though none great), and then the big Football game on Super Bowl Sunday.<\/p>\n

      \u00a0So, the Super-Bowl is less than a week away, (I\u2019m excited about it) and we\u2019re going to see the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints.\u00a0 And are\u00a0YOU going to be the person to tell Peyton Manning, Dwight Freeney, Drew Brees, and Reggie Bush, that the three guys pictured below, (Yes, the same 3 guys who are shaking their cute butts on stage so judges can decipher who has the nicer ass in a g-string), that these guys feel they should be considered on the same plain as them???<\/p>\n

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      I shake my tush on the Catwalk... yeah...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      Well, you could tell them, but you\u2019d hurt Peyton\u2019s and Drew\u2019s feelings, and that\u2019s not nice.<\/p>\n

      Please discuss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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